How did Edmonton get its name?
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian Province of Alberta.
Edmonton got its name from Fort Edmonton. Fort Edmonton got its
name from a small community in England with the same name. The name
Edmonton has a long history in England.
Edmonton, Alberta was established as a town in 1892. The town
was named after Fort Edmonton which had been established by 1795.
The name of the fort was suggested by John Peter Pruden after
Edmonton, London, which was his home in England as well as the home
of Sir James Winter Lake, the deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay
Company at the time. Edmonton, England got its name from a region
known as the Edmonton Hundred which was a district of the historic
county of Middlesex from Saxon times. Edmonton appears in the
Domesday Book of 1086, where it is recorded as Adelmetone.